343 Books Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas
The bodies of the four people killed by Zhou Shu and the sick princess were placed side by side under a bathtub-thick tree, and it was spring, and when autumn their bodies were also turned into white bones, Juanjuan's fallen leaves would bury them in the wind.
said that it was so literary and artistic, in fact, Master Zhou and the sick princess were too lazy to dig a pit and bury them.
After Zhou Shu and his entourage got the pot, they found a secluded place to start a fire to cook and eat supper, far away from these corpses. Just as dawn broke, a man wearing a plain and heavy hooded cloak appeared beside the corpse, hesitating.
This person is not ready to dig a pit and bury people, he just can't understand a little, why are these people dying here, aren't the people who are currently appearing in the small kingdom all their partners?
Zhou Shu and his entourage, who got the map, embarked on their journey slowly early the next morning, and then just went out and turned left when they were attacked by a group of wild animals.
The animals here have not seen humans all year round, and they have not yet developed the intention of being afraid of them, Zhou Shu and they probably accidentally intruded on the territory of all the animals nearby, in short, the chaotic mammals died.
Master Zhou thought that the journey would continue to go on in such a mess, but he didn't expect that after the death of that wave of beasts, they couldn't even see the squirrels around them, and they walked smoothly into the night.
Due to the fact that the two witches were so poor, several people did not go far this day. Judging from the map, if you want to go to the Gem Tower at this speed, you need to walk for at least three more days without getting lost, and Zhou Shu has also seen what it means to hike.
Since he hadn't shaved or bathed for several days, not only Zhou Shu, but even the smell of the sick princess was not very satisfactory, but Yu Bird had been exuding a faint fragrance.
"Why are you the only one who is getting dirtier and dirtier, and you have nothing to do?"
At dinner. Zhou Shu voiced his doubts.
Yu Feiniao never eats dinner, and she has never seen her cry hungry. At this moment, she was poking the bonfire with a branch in a daze, and she was very happy to hear Zhou Shu's question, which sounded like a compliment and praise.
The sick princess was a little upset when she heard this. However, she also admits that she is indeed a little out of shape now.
Yu Feiniao explained to Zhou Shu in a tone close to science that he was so white and clean because he was born beautiful. She's not lying, that's what her body looks like.
The next day, the group marched again, and went through another camping out, looking even worse, with the occasional small bug popping out of the gray witch's red curls. Aleusha is very glad that he has short hair.
On this day they decided to cross the river, a small river that was only below their feet. The snow-white and clean Yu Feiniao accidentally fell into the river, and finally got dirty with everyone.
What's worse is that after crossing the river, they are attacked by wild beasts again. It seems that the beasts on this side of the river have not yet seen the power of humans. The stinky baking animals rushed towards the group of five, although Zhou Shu was very happy to kill with a knife, but a wild boar who seemed to have high blood pressure sprayed his own blood before he died, and he also avenged his death.
Finally, Master Zhou and the girls couldn't go on at all when they walked here, they hated the smell of their bodies, and Yu Feiniao cried and shouted to find a place to clean up. Otherwise, the body will suffer from skin diseases.
The sick princess looked at the map covered in pig's blood, and she pointed out that the girls now had two choices, one was to go west, and according to the map, there should be a waterfall where they could take a bath. Otherwise, if you turn back a little further and head north, you will find a lake. According to the current water quality of the small kingdom, the lake should be clear enough to take a bath.
In the end, the five people voted fairly, and the witches and Yu Feiniao defeated Zhou Shu and his wife 3 to 2, and decided to go to the lake to have a look.
Meanwhile, Ulami, Grey Feather, and Splitstar are bathing under the waterfall to the west. What happened to them was even more terrible. The unlucky gray feather was hit on the head by a fallen broken honeycomb, and the slimy honey on the head attracted the collective excitement of the ants all over the ground**. The most terrifying thing is that she was smashed yesterday, after a night's rest...... Her hair has become an ant's nest.
The splitting side isn't much better. His illness does not seem to be severe. I've been halfway through the ointment, but the ointment is piling up there, and it's already scattered into mud after so many days, and it feels like I'm going to die when I walk.
Ula Mystery has maintained a dignified demeanor, and has been quietly and carefully clean until now, but the two of them are as dirty as ghosts and want to go to the waterfall to take a bath, and she is a fake magician who is escorted to the march in principle, so she naturally does not dare to have an opinion.
There are many water supply places in the small kingdom, but there are only two places where you can use them for bathing. The fact that the two teams of Zhou Shu and Ula Mystery will go means that other people in the valley may also go.
Splitting Star and Grey Feather take turns looking after Ula Mystery, and then take turns bathing at the bottom of the waterfall. The waterfall is small, with a man-high head and just the right amount of impact, though the occasional few fish and broken wood and gravel hit the head, which would be perfect if it didn't.
Grey Feather was anxious to get rid of the ants in her hair, so she ran to a hidden place to strip naked, and then burrowed to the bottom of the waterfall.
Zhou Shu's side rushed to the location of the lake marked on the map almost at the same time.
The water is of great quality, but there are a lot of insect carcasses floating on the surface of the lake, mostly the kind of long, big bread worms and spiders, and the fish in the water are eating these things very hard.
The four girls hesitated, but finally decided to go down to the lake to wash.
The two witches among them have limited shame, don't worry about their bodies being looked at, and don't mention Zhou Shu at all. Yu Feiniao has done everything he can do, but he doesn't care about being seen by Zhou Shu.
The sick princess wanted to avoid it when she arrived here, but she believed that Zhou Shu didn't have the courage to come, so she took off her coat very comfortably, and wore short-sleeved pajamas-like underwear to wash her exposed skin with a seized towel.
Zhou Shu and Split Star avoided boringly by the waterfall and lake respectively, not wanting to be misunderstood by the girl for any bad intentions. They all walked in the opposite direction of the girls, and in a short time they entered the grove.
There are almost these two places where the small kingdom can bathe passers-by, but the rough men who have recently broken into the small kingdom will not take a bath at all, and the cleaner ones among those people are washed once a quarter, which is quite water-saving.
Since the last time these two places were used as bathrooms. It goes back to that war sixty years ago.
There were only two women in the team led by the Knight King, and one of them was the mage of Bensan, Shirin, who was said to have contributed the most to magic in a hundred years. The other is a Yang-level female warrior, who does not appear in any stories about the Knight King. In the legends that have been passed down about her, it is mentioned that she is just a genius warrior who ignores and challenges evil and disaster. And then it just died.
Splitting Star and Zhou Shu walked in the early woods in a daze, waiting for the girl to clean her body and continue on the road fragrantly, and then they felt something wrong in the nearby woods at the same time.
They walked a few steps through the woods, feeling the touch of the pile of dead leaves under their feet, and the more they walked, the more they felt that something was wrong.
The two of them pulled out their weapons at their waists at the same time and struck them at the ground a few times. Picking apart the old dead leaves, what was revealed in front of the two of them was a pile of bones with a blackened, dry and insect-eaten surface.
The two big men were startled by what they had dug up, but when you think about it, it's normal to have some bones in a place where wildlife is so abundant. Even so, the two of them continued to dig a few times. Then more bones appeared, and more skulls emerged from the pile of dead leaves, in addition to the very space-taking thigh bone.
These skulls were clearly not human, they had horns and fangs, many of them were tattered, and among the few complete skulls, Lord Zhou and Splitstar recognized that they seemed to be very similar to the legendary sheep's horn demon.
The two teams of them came along the way and encountered a lot of animal attacks. None of the aggressive mammals had horns, but many tusks. The appearance of these animal skulls made the two brave men shudder, and they finally figured out what the strange touch under their feet was, which was the bones all over the ground.
However, what appeared next negated their view, and other touches came from the soles of their feet. Pick it out with weapons, it was some worn-out weapons, swords and iron rods, some shields and rotting leather armor.
These things seemed to be trinkets on the market stalls, and they were scattered all over the woods.
The two of them had a bad feeling about this, as if there had been a terrible war in the woods before this water source.
The traces of the war were soon proven, and Zhou Shu found a charred and broken tree. The sudden appearance of a bare forest of broken trees in the dense woods was very abrupt.
Splitting the star found a large pile of severed rotting logs piled on the ground, surrounded by broken stakes, and felt like they had come to an abandoned lumber yard.
When the two of them saw this, they thought of the great war that had broken out in this small kingdom. But such a small battlefield in front of us is clearly not the place for the final decisive battle. What's even worse is that these things killed in the battle under their feet are obviously not people, but animals fighting with weapons.
Zhou Shu, a liberal arts student, is naturally romantically associated with scenes that only appear in many RPG games, with various subhumanoid monsters turning into white bones and the hero's experience points after the battle. Splitstar has also heard of some of the things that happened during the catastrophe, and it is said that when the thing cuts through his body, monsters are born from his blood.
The two men judged that there had been an encounter between two groups of people in the vicinity for some unknown amount of time. They roughly cleaned up the bones with their boots, and found only monsters, not human ones. From this, it can be guessed that it was probably a group of weak monsters besieging one or several strong humans, and then the humans retreated after brushing the monsters, and did not die.
Of course, it is also possible that the human race gathered the bones of his fallen comrades after the victory, which Zhou Shu thought of splitting the stars but did not dig deeper. Splitting Star was now staring at the logs all over the ground, waving the sword in his hand, trying to see if he could cut through these trees as thick as the dining table.
The result was very happy, the tattered saber of the splitting star broke off during the logging process, and the trees in the forest were quite hard hardwoods, and the splitting star could not handle it at all.
Zhou Shu was in a daze at the scorched forest, and he also found scorched marks on the bones and weapons all over the ground, as if someone was burning pigs with the fire wall technique here.
The people who fought here were magicians, and it was hard not to wonder if the conjecture was true, and magic was not always unusable in this small kingdom.
Thinking of the legendary magician of the Knight King, Shilin Zhoushu felt that this possibility was very high. Generally speaking, it is impossible for an army to fight with a mage who cannot use magic.
The girls took a quick shower, and none of them were squirming and kneading, and they knew very well that now was not the time to enjoy the pleasure of cleansing their bodies.
Zhou Shu and Split Star told the girls what they had discovered, which sparked a discussion, and then the discussion ended in vain. There are some things that cannot be restored by imagination alone. Instead of thinking wildly, move on to find the truth.
The day that followed, the two groups of men and horses marching in front and behind gradually discovered the whereabouts of many outsiders, those who had entered the small kingdom in recent days. The number of these people was about fifty, and the neighborhood was very lively, and every once in a while, a team of five would appear and wander around and burrow into the dense forest.
These people kept their mouths shut the whole time. There was neither communication nor sound, as if the woods were some solemn place.
Splitting Star didn't know why there were so many travelers carrying packages in the forbidden land of the White Moon Country, and he guarded the soft and weak Ula Mystery and cowered in the tree, trying not to let the group of passers-by below him find her.
These people all had weapons straddling them, and they looked like a group of warriors, and Splitstar and Gray Feather didn't want to come into contact with them. After dodging the first wave of warriors. Ula makes it clear that these guys are not his own people and he doesn't know them.
"But they're heading for your 'secret base'!" Greyfeather asked.
Ula said that he didn't know what was going on, "Anyway, let's go over and have a look first, be careful, you know, I have no combat power." ”
Splitting Star nodded, "No one regards you as a combat power. No matter what happens to your side, rescuing Great Johnnie is the primary goal, you just need to lead the way, and I will protect you. ”
Grey Feather listened to the words 'I will protect you' and got goosebumps on his arm.
Master Zhou, who knew what was going on here, walked behind the group of people in Wulamy, and they also saw groups of warriors and found that these people were not in a hurry, but looking for something.
Now the two groups could faintly see the jewel tower surrounded by trees, the height of the tower was higher than the average tree height, and the apron-like spire could be seen in the distance.
Successfully avoid all warriors. Zhou Shu and his entourage found a low terrain and got together to discuss things under the cover of a small dirt slope.
"What are they looking for?" the sick princess resisted the urge to catch a few people and torture them, and guessed for herself before asking questions.
The witches still didn't understand the situation, "Aren't they looking for that Shirin?"
Zhou Shu grabbed his cheek with his index finger, and he also couldn't figure out how things were going. "You think these people are looking for someone? How do I think it's like a patrol. ”
"Patrol? Who are they watching out for? Are we on guard?"
Yu Feiniao said: "It's hard that we've been exposed, after all, we killed four people." ”
The sick princess nodded. "yes, it's not surprising that they're starting to get nervous after finding their team attrition. ”
Zhou Shu didn't quite agree with this point of view, "If you find a group of people hiding in the shadows killing your people, will you still let your people disperse and go out on patrol?" He felt that this was simply one of those neurotic horror movies, knowing that they were in danger and still acting separately, the person who left the team first would definitely be the first to die.
"When have you been so smart?!" the sick princess opened her round eyes in disbelief. "You're right, if they are really looking for someone, then they must have taken the initiative, and the person being found should be at a disadvantage in terms of combat effectiveness. ”
"Then it shouldn't be us, because they can't judge our combat effectiveness, and they even think that we are strong enough to kill four people, and we won't scatter people lightly. ”
The gray witch said, "Then I'm really still looking for that Shirin!"
Zhou Shu took out the map and clicked on the gem tower above: "Didn't you say that that person lived here?
The sick princess shook her head and reasoned: "I don't think it's very likely, if these guys are looking for someone, the scope of action is too small, so small that it looks like a patrol." If anyone did escape, the search should be much larger, right?"
Several people got together and studied for a long time, but they got themselves into it, and no matter how they thought about it, they felt that the actions of these people were actually quite contradictory.
In order to answer questions and solve doubts, the martial arts faction led by the sick princess decided that it would be better to grab a few people and ask about the situation.
Without the Book of Summoning, a combat effectiveness tester, Master Zhou was a little worried about kicking the iron plate, and he was not very willing to go, so the two opinions were neutralized, and the sick princess took him to follow the team that seemed to be very weak first, and secretly observed whether they were as weak as they appeared.
During her time in exile in the First World, the sick princess learned a Chinese proverb called 'The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind'. As a liberal arts student, Zhou Shu explained the paraphrase of this sentence to her, and the eldest princess found it interesting after hearing it, and created a lingua franca version.
She was now moving away from the squad with Zhou Shu, and found a squad of enemies with a nervous expression.
At first, Princess Celestia thought that these guys were so nervous because they were not strong and afraid of accidents in the mountains and forests. After a closer look, she found that this group of sneaky guys was actually following a person, so she had to be cautious.
What they were following was a guy wearing a thick brown hooded cloak that couldn't tell the difference between men and women.
In the small kingdom, the enemy of the gang found by Kuaishou is only the target of their trip, and the person they are following is obviously the latter.
The sick princess is very happy to appear as a yellow finch, and is ready to swallow the praying mantis and cicada in one go. (To be continued.) )
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